The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.
CASEY STENGELGood pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.
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I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don’t drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren’t speaking and I said I’ll take that drink.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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